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Bookstagram OBSESSED
As an author, it's a given that I love books. But I also love book culture, book aesthetic, and especially book people. I've been a...
Nov 11, 20204 min read


Writing vs. Editing
We authors are required to wear many hats — author, publicist, fedora, beret (preferably in raspberry ... See how I just slid that...
Jan 22, 20204 min read


Doubling Down on Sad: Where Depression and Grief Collide
I originally posted this to my grief blog: forloveofevelyn.com, but decided to share it here because it deals with depression in addition...
Nov 12, 20197 min read


Social Media for the Emotionally Challenged
I'm not depressed. I am emotionally challenged. Actually. I'm grieving. And I have PTSD. And I'm depressed. It's a veritable Happy Meal...
Nov 5, 20196 min read


Post Release Blues
I'm doing that thing. That thing you're never supposed to do. That thing I have been warned against and keep doing anyway, where I get...
Oct 23, 20197 min read


The Novel I Wish I Never Wrote
They say life imitates art. I sincerely hope that isn't true. When my 18-year-old daughter unexpectedly died in her sleep two months...
Sep 16, 20198 min read


Writing on the Dark Side of the Moon
I have always been a lover of words and those things only words can build — stories, books, the voices of people with extraordinary...
Jun 24, 20194 min read


Preventing a Tragedy like the Fosters'
In Resurrection Girls, main character, Olivia, is grappling with a family deeply paralyzed by their grief several years after the...
Mar 1, 20193 min read


Toxic Friends
The first time someone described the relationship between my main characters in Resurrection Girls as "toxic", it took me aback. I'm not...
Sep 12, 20184 min read


Our Story
If you're going to read my novels, if you're going understand me as a writer, as a mother, as a person, then you should know my story....
Jul 24, 20181 min read
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